Tag: NASA
Uber, NASA developing flying taxis system
Flying taxis could be available by 2023 At the Web Summit conference in Lisbon, Portugal this week, Uber announced it hopes to launch a fleet of flying taxis by 2020. The ride-hailing service says it is developing project Elevate, which will offer commuters relief from congested roadways. The San Francisco-based company says it faces many […]
50 years of fuel cells started with NASA’s Gemini 5
Fuel cells use hydrogen and oxygen in a chemical reaction – not combustion – to generate electricity Fifty years ago today, Gemini 5 made history as the first manned spacecraft to utilize fuel cells, allowing the United States to seize the manned spaceflight endurance record from the Soviet Union for the first time, and launching the […]
Texas space race: Internet billionaires vie for the skies
PayPal, Amazon founders in Texas space race An isolated edge of vast West Texas is home to a highly secretive part of the 21st-century space race, one of two being directed in the Lone Star State by Internet billionaires whose personalities and corporate strategies seem worlds apart. The presence of Blue Origin, LLC, the brainchild of […]
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